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ORU Revamps

The Associated Press:
Workers are toiling in the thick summer heat, trying to bring the campus of Oral Roberts University into the current century. Parking lots are torn up on the 1960s-era grounds, dormitory walls have been stripped to the studs and crates of new stainless-steel appliances wait to be put in the cafeteria. ... [T]he once-tarnished university known for its 60-foot-high bronze sculpture of praying hands is emerging from the 2007 scandal with a new campus, hundreds of new donors, tens of millions of dollars in paid-off debt — and a new president. Mark Rutland, 61, takes office Wednesday and becomes the first person to lead the school without the surname of Roberts.

Posted by Editor at July 3, 2009 01:37 AM